The image and caption document well how toxics and environmental risks have specific histories and will have specific situated futures according to the political and cultural economy of the area in which they are materially found. The caption explains this at great length with reference to Austin.
Living in toxic places is not a choice, but the people who live in those places are the only ones that could really change their situation and cut the vicious circle. Any development that comes from the outside wouldn’t be based on the true minute to minute life that local people experience on a daily basis.